Feb. 19, 2025

Be Strong and Courageous!

Be Strong and Courageous!

How can you find hope and peace after a tragedy has struck? Author Shilo Creed discusses 4 simple steps to controlling fear and living an abundant life.

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Season 1

How can you find hope and peace after a tragedy has struck? Author Shilo Creed discusses 4 simple steps to controlling fear and living an abundant life.

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It's time to stand up, speak out, get involved, and

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let's speak intention.

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Hello and welcome to Intentional. I am your host, Mick Meal.

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Thanks for joining us live here today on w four

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that you find Intentional. We are very grateful for your support. Okay, everybody,

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it's time. Are you ready? So let's stand up, speak out,

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get involved, and let's be intentional. Have you noticed that

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everything in the world right now is on this high

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emotional level. What we see, what we hear, what we

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feel is this bombardment of adversity, disaster, tragedy by design.

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Probably think about that. You know, schools are teaching social

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emotional learning, which focuses on regulating children's emotions and behaviors.

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To promote this socio emotional outcome and create these social

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justice warriors. Social media is full of videos and posts.

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I call them agitators or inciterers because they use profanity

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and they call people names, and they attack people with

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a different viewpoint, and I really think it's too illicit

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and emotional response. Try to watch what used to be

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called the news. Within five minutes they are on this

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unhinged rant and they evoke these raw emotional responses. Think

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about what we've seen just in the last five years.

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COVID and the fear factor. It was this intense hospitalization

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and death ticker going on off in the side screen

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of your TV. There were screams to run and hide,

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be afraid, be very very afraid. It was manipulating that

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societal behavior to get an experimental shot or lose your job.

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A president who was bathed in a blood red backdrop

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with a deafening message of polarization, tribalization, dehumanization against those

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who disagreed with him. There are multiple wars and anxieties

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surrounding Russia and the Middle East. Terrorism, economic unrest, the

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rise of lawlessness and violence in our streets, stripping of

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freedoms and rights with unconstitutional mandates. Now You've got congressional

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members out there who are calling for fighting in the streets,

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raising up emotions to like this fever pitch out there,

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calling for weapons, like real weapons to be brought to

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some uprising that is going to occur and is occurring

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on a daily basis. I don't know about you, but

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it's time to stop, take a deep breath, take a

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moment to recognize that a spiritual battle is waging. Ephesian

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six ' twelve says, our struggle is not against flesh

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and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against

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the powers of this dark world, and against the spiritual

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forces of evil in the heavenly realms. It's important that

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we recognize the spiritual nature of this battle. As believers,

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that we are called to be strong and courageous. Two

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Timothy one seven says God has not given us the

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spirit of fear, but of power and of love and

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a strong mind, and rest assured that fail over fear

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and following the will of God is the victory. Today.

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Let's lean in with a very special guest, Shiloh Creed.

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This is a woman with a simple four step plan

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to controlling fear and living abundant life. She is also

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author of the book Plunged. It's the first book of

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the Three World's Christian sci fi series. It's a must

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read for those who are searching for the truth and

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longing to see God's will come to pass in their life.

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So let's talk about it. Welcome with me, Shiloh Creed. Hello, Shiloh,

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how are you?

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Hi? Thank you for having me today in circles.

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I'm like, welcome, thank you.

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It's great to be here.

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Well, it is really good and it is an honor

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to be able to speak with you. You know, sometimes

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those little minions in the background, you know, they take

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a little delay, but I know that it's worth the weight.

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And uh, it's really good to see you. Are you

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doing good today?

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I am. We're having some beautiful weather. It feels like

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spring here in North Carolina.

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So that's a blessing.

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Oh, that is wonderful and I'm grateful. Where in North

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Carolina are you?

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We're about forty five minutes from Wilmington.

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Are you guys part of any of all of that

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natural disaster that was going on with the flooding? Were

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you affecting?

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No, Thank thank the Lord, we weren't.

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My husband did go out too, try to help a

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couple of times, and he wasn't how he wasn't able

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to get in there, So very unusual situation.

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But yeah, for sure, for sure. Wow, Well, I'm grateful

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that you're with us today. I'm very glad that you've

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come to discuss this topic with me. It seems Shiloh,

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and this is just my take on it, but we

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seem to be living in one of the most exciting

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times ever on many levels, voting spiritually, but it's not

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for the fate of heart. So much of what is

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in the world right now is kind of surrounded by

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this emotion of fear and anxiety. Maybe it's just I'm

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looking too much on social media or watching too much news,

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but it is a gripping and overwhelming mental state that

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I am seeing over there, and it seems to be

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causing a lot of the precious souls much damage, robbing

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them of the living the life that really God intended

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for us. I know you know this. God doesn't give

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us fear anxiety, but He has provided us these physical

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and mental bodies in a way to handle an onslaught

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of distractions, emotions that can really be exhausting. He's provided

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us free will and choice and his word which is

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very calming and cultivates our faith. But in all honesty, Shiloh,

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these are kind of words. They're very easy for me

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to say, especially talking on a podcast. The hard part

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seems to be putting them into practice and really being

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diligent to make them into a habit. And so I

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wanted to kind of jump in and talk about a

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four step process or plan that you recommend on how

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people can approach life, maybe bring themselves some peace and

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kindle their faith. And maybe I thought we could go

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through those four steps if that's okay with.

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You, absolutely I would love to.

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The first step is to remove, and it's pretty simple.

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First three steps start with an R, so they're easy

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to remember. So remove, What does that mean? Emotionally? When

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we are experiencing large emotions, we are very controllable. If

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someone or a government agency or anything in our lives

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can influence our emotions, we are immediately controllable.

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And that's not really a place that I.

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Don't I don't think any believer in Jesus Christ wants

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to be there, right. We want to be controlled by

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the Holy Spirit, We want to be controlled by His will.

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So first step is to remove. And so many messages.

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That we hear today say well, well, what you feel

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is your reality, and that couldn't honestly be further from

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the truth.

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It would be sort of like somebody.

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Saying I have a blue shirt on today, so I'm blue, right,

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everybody would be like, no, you're not blue. Your shirt

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is blue. And yet we treat our emotions that way.

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We give them such a high place within our being,

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you know, and that's a dangerous place to be. So

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step one remove realize, you know, even if the mas

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that you're hearing from social media, from mental health facilities, that,

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I mean, places like this are really pushing emotion. So

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step back and say, you know what, my emotions do exist.

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They are important, and they are a part of me,

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but they are not me. Maybe you even need to

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change your Specifically, someone might say I'm sad, Well, I'm

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pretty sure you haven't felt sad your entire life, So

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maybe a better way to say it would be to

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just put the word I feel sad, because that puts

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sort of a corral around that, right, Like, it's entirely

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possible for me to feel otherwise at a different at

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a different time, so we need to sort of approach

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emotions from a different place. We need to realize that

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they do have a place, They are important, but they

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are not.

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They don't make up who we are.

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You know, that is so so important I think for

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people to kind of hear that, to remove themselves, or

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even to maybe even remove that emotion. When I first

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became a Christian, and even in times today, Shiloh, I

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couldn't stop the worry thoughts that kept entering my head,

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Like even if I wasn't thinking of something, it would

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suddenly come to me. And now I recognize that that

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was really a spiritual battle. But there was a woman

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that I called her my adopted grandmother, and she would

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keep telling me, Mick, keep your eyes on the horizon.

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And I couldn't figure it out at first, But then

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I started to consider what she was saying, and I thought,

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maybe what she was saying to me is consider the

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situation that I'm in. Maybe weigh my options of what's

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going on in my life. Maybe determine if there was

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some danger or something out there, and then make the

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choice to fight through that fear and trust God. Maybe

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push fear out of my mind for a little while.

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Replace it with faith. I you know, it's not easy

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to do. I mean, I have to do it on

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a daily basis, you know, every morning I wake up.

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Yes, And I think we all do it.

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We've gotten as a society far away from tending a

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garden or growing our own food, you know, but people

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were very aware that you had to pull weeds if

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you wanted a good harvest, you had to pay attention

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to the harvest you were growing. And I think emotionally

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we just don't do that. A lot of people are

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just letting every weed grow. They're in their emotional state

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and their mental state, and that's it's just not a

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wise practice. But you can choose to start on a

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new road. And that's the exciting part is that where

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you are today, it's not where you have to live.

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You can you can make new choices and grow a

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new harvest. And that's I don't know, to me, that's

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just exciting. So yeah, step one, step back from your

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emotions a little bit. I'm not telling anybody to act

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like they don't exist. They do, you know, but they

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are not the entire makeup. And certain emotions are not

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benefiting you, you know, they're detrimental to who you are,

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so you know you need to start to control them

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instead of them controlling you, which is where the next

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couple of steps come in.

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So are you ready for those?

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I'm ready.

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I'm ready, all right?

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So step two is to replace. Okay, So none of

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us can have an empty head, right, none of us

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can just be a blank slate in our minds. If

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you're going to say, all right, like I'm dealing with

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anxiety right now and I really feel very strong things

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in my body and also in my mind, you can't

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just say, well, I'm not going to do that.

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I think we all know that does not work.

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You need to have a plan, and a part of

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that plan is partially for your body and partially for

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the way that you're going to think. Okay, So for

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your body, you need your body to be on your side.

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That might sound a little strange, but you need your

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body to be helping you to.

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Be calm and in control. And there's one great way

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to do that, something that Navy seals use when they're

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going into face live action.

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So this is something that scientifically, absolutely.

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Hands down works.

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It's a very simple breathing technique and what it will

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do is it will reset your nervous system from running

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on that flight or fight mode, and it will reset

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it back to a more logical and in control setting,

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if you will, for your nerves. So it's very simple.

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It's called box breathing. You're going to take four seconds,

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nice slow inhale. You're going to hold in for four seconds,

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just that slow breath holding it out, slow breath holding

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it in. And it takes a while, honestly to learn that,

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that intentionally every day to really get to the point

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can turn on while you're doing other things. But man,

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what an incredible reset. I was just talking to a lady.

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scripture together, and she came to me, said her, and

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she was like, I cannot believe the difference that this

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you know, Jesus wept, you know, that was the one,

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you know, and then I kind of moved on. But

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that's phenomenal and it really is calming.

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feel that different, But if you do it for two

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will recognize, oh, my body flipped from being anxious and

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it gives you the It gives you the edge. It's

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like you know, taking protein before you exercise or after

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scripture ready, right because when you're upset, when things are

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concordance and look up what scripture could I have here?

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and find specific scriptures that you can use to replace

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the worry, fear, or anxiety, whatever a strong emotional state

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that you're dealing with. To box breathing and having scripture prepared.

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going to start to breathe calmly, and then I'm going

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to on purpose put scripture in my mind, the right

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scripture for what I need.

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We're with you. So far, we're doing it with you.

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I'm going through my scripture memory right now my head.

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Yes, it's so important.

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it note stuck here or there. We need it, you know,

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written down wherever you're standing and in your car, stick

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You know, we need.

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Help in the beginning to really get those scriptures inside.

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emotional state that a big part of this step is recognizing,

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you know, God is tryun right. These three parts Father son,

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Holy Spirit. We're made in His image. We're made three

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and one two. We have we are a spirit, We

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have a soul, which is your mind, will and emotion.

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That's an extremely important way to look at yourself as

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Most of us live body.

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want this, And then you know, kind of another level

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is that mental logical level where people kind of get

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The mind and knowledge and all those things.

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is to live by the spirit, just like you know,

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it talks about Romans eight is the entire chapter. He's

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talking about walking in the spirit instead of in the flesh.

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And that is where the power of this comes in.

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your spirits in control of your mind, your will, and

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you're especially emotions, and then your body is kind of

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underneath those two parts, man, you are free. That's the

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freedom that Jesus was talking about, you know. And he

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said that I've come to give you life and.

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Life more abundantly.

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He meant that I've come to restore the original way

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I made Adam and Eve, and that.

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control and harness your emotions to be able to actually

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use them for good in your life instead of having

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them kind of you know, bring evil into your life.

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a nurse, I think that I saw significantly. I worked

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oncology bom mare transplant, and then for a while I

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there was actually a we called it the broken heart

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syndrome where severe stress led to people having like a

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sudden and temporary weakening of their heart and the ability

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to pump, and they would be bringing them into the ICU.

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that heart failure has really been related to increased level

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of stress, the epinephrin, the nere epineferent, and really it

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seems to have been surrounded that stress has seemed to

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be surrounded by intense emotional pain, whether it was fear

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I love that. I love that the restoring, the restoring,

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of bringing back that that parasympathetic kind of resetting your body.

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I love that.

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You know, ninety percent of what we worry about doesn't

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come to pass.

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That's just phenomenal.

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If you can really get a hold of that and

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realize ninety percent of the things that are bothering me,

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that are causing me, stress are never going to actually

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come to pass. And it's so sad to look back,

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you know, on your past and say, wow, I wasted

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so much time on an effort on things that weren't

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even real, you know. So the more that we gain skill,

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and really that's what it is, emotional control. Emotional intelligence

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is a skill. And there are a lot of people

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that will tell you, you know, emotions just they come

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to you, you can't really control them. But science tells

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us that every emotion comes from a thought. There is

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always a thought first, So guess what controlling the mind?

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Romans twelve one says, you know that we need to

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renew our minds. So when you were saved, your spirit

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became that new creature one hundred percent just like Jesus Christ.

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Your mind it didn't become exactly like Jesus Christ. It's

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your job as a Christian, as a follower of Jesus,

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to renew it, to change it, to renovate your mind.

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be very skilled, you know, like you would say, well

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and you will put time and effort in there. Well,

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if you put time and effort into learn the skill

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of controlling what you choose to think about and therefore

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what emotions are living inside of you. Man, you can change,

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you can change your whole life. It's an incredible skill

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to have.

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Absolutely absolutely all right, we're with you so far, Shiloh,

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bring us home, all right?

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Step four gratitude And that sounds so simple, but they

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have they have studied the brain. Obviously, we all know that.

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You know, we know a lot about the brain. And

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one of the most significant findings within.

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The last year and a half has been that I

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believe it's the Amidalgo.

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I'm may be wrong with that fact, but the.

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Portion of your brain that creates anxiety and fear is

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the exact same portion.

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Of your brain that creates gratitude. Thankful, Yeah, and guess

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what it cannot do both at once. It is either

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producing anxiety, worry and fear, or it is producing gratitude.

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Those are there's no gray, no gray in the middle.

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It is one or the other.

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So literally, one of the best ways when you feel

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emotions coming on, when you you know when you're when

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you know, hey, I'm facing a situation today, I have

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a meeting that I'm really.

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Not looking forward to. You have a stressful event coming up.

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develop an attitude of gratitude because you are forcing your

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brain to stay in the right place.

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And it can be so simple.

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You know, I know a lot of people maybe they

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feel like they don't have a lot to be thankful for,

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but it can be as simple as I'm just really

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thankful that i have clothing to wear, that I'm comfortable,

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I'm not too cold, I'm not too hot. It's simple gratitude.

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It doesn't have to be for a huge event. So

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that's another skill to add to your arsenal.

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There is the attitude of gratitude because you.

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Will always overcome fear and anxiety when you walk in thankfulness.

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And everyone who knows Our Lord Christ has a lot

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to be thankful for.

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So yeah, four step program is pretty simple.

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Kids can do it, so I know every adult listening

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can wow.

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And you know, I just I love that it brings

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together that we're choosing faith over fear, trusting in God

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and in Christ's plan and his promises. It just kind

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of brings that home to me. As you were talking,

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those words were going off in my head acknowledge, but

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not allow these emotions to control our life. Instead focus

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on him, his way, his words, and and there's a

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way to bring it together and be able to live

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in really kind of in your own head in harmony,

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because I think so many of us are are defeated

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in our own mind. You know, I've I've connected a

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lot with a group of widows and widowers. A lot

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of them suffered the tragedy of losing spouses because of

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the COVID hospital protocols, and and they're still you know,

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being given It's it was a highly little drug called

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remdesvere that was given. They killed so many. It's a

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different story for a different day. But I'm also connected

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to to many of the people who are vas injured.

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They are suffering from these severe disabilities from the mRNA shots.

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They've lost loved ones as well. But now, you wrote

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a book that is called Plunged the Three Worlds, and

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and you wrote it as, if I'm not mistaken, a

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mirror for those on their own faith journey, Shiloh, I

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would love it if you would kind of tell us

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about that book and how might people find resilience in

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the face of adversity.

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Right, Plunged.

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It was a book in the making for a long time.

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I've written thirty eight novels, so you know it's not

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It's definitely not my first go around. But it is

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the reason that I wrote all my other books. It

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was to gain skill in order to do Plunge. It

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is really, at its heart the story of faith that

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I had to walk through. When I was thirty two

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years old, my children were just little babies, my.

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Heart stopped beating. I had major heart issues. In two weeks.

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Before that, I had come to the Lord and I

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had just said, I have to believe your word. I

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just don't do things halfway. I'm not a halfway person.

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take you as my physician and I'm going to trust

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you completely for my health. And two weeks later, my

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heart stopped beating. Major test Right, you don't have a

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testimony without a test And I'm not saying that God

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sent it, you know, I know, I know where where

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evil things like that come from. But I had to

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unlearn so much religious thinking in order to take hold

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of faith, the faith that would move mountains. And I'm

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so thankful that first of all, God is so kind

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and he's so merciful, and also that he's so powerful.

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So really, you know, I walked through that journey of

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receiving healing for a couple of years, that her condition

479
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would return, it would leave, it would return, And so

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Plunge is really, at its heart, the story of what

481
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it took to take hold of faith and to rely

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one hundred percent on God. And you know, he always

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meets you there. He never you know, he doesn't ever

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not show up. And yeah, so Plunge is the story

485
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of a Navy seal. He's one of the toughest, strongest,

486
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smartest men on earth, and the New World Order forces

487
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him into a military experiment which plunges him into the spiritual.

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Side of the world.

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He's seeing everything instead of the physical, He's seeing that

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spiritual side of our existence. And he realizes how weak

491
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an atro feed he is because he hasn't been feeding

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his spirit, he hasn't been exercising it at all. And

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he also realizes he doesn't know how to fight in

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this world. So it's kind of that really neat play

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between someone who's very strong that you would look at

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and say, wow, what a person, But in the inside.

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You know, he was just as weak as anybody else.

498
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So yeah, those stories are all wrapped up together in

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a thrilling ride of a spiritual adventure.

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00:29:34.200 --> 00:29:36.720
Now this is just book one, right, I mean there's

501
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two others come in, so yes, yes, they come in out.

502
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Book two is written, it's in editing, and it's due

503
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to come out in July. We do have a Plunged

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study guide. So for book one, we have a Bible study.

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It's a nine week Bible study that is great for

506
00:29:53.119 --> 00:29:56.720
individuals or small group studies, and that should be actually

507
00:29:56.759 --> 00:30:00.720
be releasing in a couple of weeks. Super excited about that. Yeah,

508
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so we're rolling along with the Three world series.

509
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That's amazing. Now people can find this on Amazon Plunged

510
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the Three Worlds. And you said, there's a study guide

511
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with it. That's amazing. Is it like, is it like

512
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how to grow your Spirit? Is it a Bible study?

513
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How did I miss that part?

514
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No?

515
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Yeah, it's a Bible study, so nine weeks and really

516
00:30:24.160 --> 00:30:26.200
covers in depth what you'll find in the novel. So

517
00:30:26.240 --> 00:30:28.799
it's meant to be read kind of alongside the novel.

518
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You know, they'll go together. You can definitely read the novel.

519
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Without the study Guide.

520
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You could read the study Guide without the novel, but

521
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you might be you know, there's definitely references in there's

522
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the novel, so you definitely want to grab them both.

523
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And that is on pre order right now, but it's

524
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in formatting. We're getting really close to being ready to

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release the study Guide.

526
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So super excited.

527
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That's amazing. We want everybody to go and buy the book.

528
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I mean it's just you know, just just reading through,

529
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you know, the descriptions. It is powerful and I'm grateful

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to hear that it comes with a study guide because

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you know, we are interested in nourishing not just the

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physical body, but the spiritual body, the mental body. You know,

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I always reference back as a nurse to the holism

534
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of the person. You know, we're more than just a body,

535
00:31:19.759 --> 00:31:22.359
where a spirit, We're a mind. We you know, we

536
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are we are basically well like you said, you know,

537
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the the you know, Christ, the three and one, the Father,

538
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the Son, the Holy Spirit. You know, we are made

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in His image, Uh Shiloh. I want people to kind

540
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of have hope. There are people out there who are overwhelmed,

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They're anxious, they're almost afraid to the point of being

542
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paralyzed by their own emotion, their own fear. Now some, obviously,

543
00:31:50.000 --> 00:31:53.440
you know, need medical assistance, and we want anyone who

544
00:31:53.519 --> 00:31:58.440
is feeling extremely depressed to please find help, call for help,

545
00:31:58.599 --> 00:32:02.720
engage with help in professional matter wherever you can. But

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00:32:02.960 --> 00:32:07.039
many are hurting and cannot cope in the environment that

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we are in right now. They believe that Christ has

548
00:32:11.079 --> 00:32:15.480
left them, They believe that Jesus has forsaken them. What

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do you say to them.

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Well, I think we need to go back to Genesis

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to really understand how the world works. You know, if

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you don't really have the first three chapters of Genesis down,

553
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it's very easy to get confused about things. God made

554
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the world and it was perfect, that's what he said,

555
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and then sin entered, and every bit of sin, sickness, darkness, poverty,

556
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suffering for mankind it came because of sin and with sin.

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So I think as a culture, we're a little bit confused.

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You know, in the Book of James it says God

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doesn't tempt anyone with evil, and nor is he tempted

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by evil, and that he doesn't tempt any man. So

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I think we really need to recognize the source of things.

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And if we were able to go back to Genesis

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with every situation in our lives and we simply said

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is because you know, the Book of James also says

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every good gift and every perfect gift comes down from

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the Father above. Right, So if you looked at your

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life and you said, is this a good gift?

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Is this a perfect gift?

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And if the answer is no, then it didn't come

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from God.

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That's pretty simple.

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But it also gives you the ability to either accept or.

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Reject things in your life.

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Right because if you think, well, maybe God made me sick,

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maybe he wanted me, you know, to go through this situation,

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how are you ever going to have faith to ask

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Him to.

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Help you through it if you think he brought it

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to you in the first place.

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So really going back to Genesis and saying what is

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the source? Did this come from from life? Or did

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this come from death? And then you take that forward

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and you say, Okay, if it came from death, if

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this is a part of stealing, killing and destroying, and

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we all know that's from the enemy, then I'm going

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to stand up against it. I Am not going to

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accept it, and I'm going to fight against just that

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00:34:02.880 --> 00:34:07.279
simple act of judging everything that comes to you through

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that lens.

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Is this life or is this death?

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Because I know who brings each one right.

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The enemy doesn't come except to steal, kill and destroy.

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But I am come.

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Jesus said that they might have life, and that they

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might have it more abundantly.

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Just that simple step.

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Will give you a huge shift to be able to

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stand up and refuse things and accept the good things

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00:34:29.320 --> 00:34:32.360
of God, but refuse to accept the evil things that

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this world brings.

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Absolutely absolutely. One of my favorite verses is Philippians for

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six through seven, be anxious for nothing, but in everything,

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00:34:45.360 --> 00:34:49.719
by prayer and supplication, with thanksgiving, letchery quests be made

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known to God, and the peace of God, which surpasses

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00:34:53.599 --> 00:34:57.440
all understanding, will guide your hearts and your minds. In

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Christ Jesus, hold on to that every day. I know

607
00:35:04.280 --> 00:35:08.840
it sounds maybe people go, Okay, Mick, whatever, but I

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00:35:08.920 --> 00:35:12.559
repeat that every morning when I wake up, because it

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actually starts my day. I am so appreciative, Shiloh, of

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everything and all the information that you're giving our audience today.

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I want to give you kind of the last word

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to kind of tell us about what you're doing. You

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00:35:29.559 --> 00:35:33.960
know what's coming up websites, any and all information that

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you'd like to share with us.

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Thank you man.

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The message I really want people to hear today is

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no matter where you are on your journey with the Lord,

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there is so much more.

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If you have known the Lord for.

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00:35:47.800 --> 00:35:50.559
Years, there is so much more to him. There's so

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much more knowledge and wisdom that he wants to give you.

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So don't stop cultivate that relationship. First, seek the Lord

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with your whole heart. You know, it's kingdom time. It's

624
00:36:01.719 --> 00:36:04.679
time for us to stop living for ourselves and to

625
00:36:04.760 --> 00:36:08.719
start seeking His kingdom first. And I think that Plunged

626
00:36:08.920 --> 00:36:10.679
is a way that people can begin.

627
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To do that. It's full of scripture.

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It's a story that will grab your heart, that will

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00:36:14.119 --> 00:36:17.079
stay with you. It's a story that will encourage you

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00:36:17.519 --> 00:36:20.800
into deeper faith. So yeah, Plunged is a great play

631
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to kind of just spur on your spiritual growth. You

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can find me at shilohcreed dot com. I connect with

633
00:36:27.920 --> 00:36:29.239
me there, jump on my newsletter.

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That would be.

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Awesome, and I'll keep you informed us to new books

636
00:36:32.920 --> 00:36:35.760
coming out, you know, as they roll out, because there's

637
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a lot going on this summer.

638
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Wow. Wow, Shiloh It has been an honor just speaking

639
00:36:43.280 --> 00:36:47.079
with you, talking with you, sharing this moment in time

640
00:36:47.119 --> 00:36:51.159
with you. Thank you for sharing with us the four steps.

641
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Everybody utilize that at home. I think it is a

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phenomenal exercise and we need it, We so desperately need

643
00:37:02.760 --> 00:37:06.239
it in this time. You know, never forget that that

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God is with you always. Thank you Shiloh for being

645
00:37:10.360 --> 00:37:14.280
with us shining the light of faith and grace, mercy,

646
00:37:14.519 --> 00:37:18.159
peace and love upon us. Thank you all for being

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with us today. I'm going to see you tomorrow. Remember

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that resistance is not futile and blessings to you all always.

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It's time to stand up, speak out, get involved, and

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let's beak intentions.